Boycott US

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Overview:

The community dedicated to boycotting the US until they stop fascism, restore full democracy and start following international law.

Americans have a moral obligation to resist Donald Trump and project 2025 at every turn.

America is a flawed democracy currently being ruled by oligarchs. Stop the backslide! Dont let America become the next Hungary.

America needs to challenge the court rulings of citizens united v. fec and shelby county v. holder, protect the media, implement independent district drawing, and the single transferable vote so they don't end up having people stay home in life-changing elections because they cannot vote for their favourite candidate.

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!buycanadian@lemmy.ca

!buyeuropean@feddit.uk

!buyafrican@baraza.africa

!boycottchina@sopuli.xyz

!boycott@lemmy.sdf.org

Activism:

!antitrumpalliance@lemmy.world

!petitions@lemmy.ca

!palestine@sopuli.xyz

!protest@lemmy.world

!israelicrimes@lemmy.world

!patriotsforprogress@lemmy.ca

!goodsuniteus@lemmy.ca

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Sunshine@lemmy.ca

Torn on Signal and BlueSky (feddit.org)

submitted 1 week ago by guest@feddit.org to c/boycottus@lemmy.ca

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I am torn on how to handle both Signal and BlueSky. They are definitely outside of the big tech, privacy violating bunch but ultimately still part of the US ecosystem.

Especially the recent event that Elon pressured the Reddit CEO to censor a subreddit keeps me thinking.

BlueSky does in theory have federation support, but it is still in its infancy. It is also still a company, albeit a public benefits one, and thus has a commercial interest. Most people are leaving X for BlueSky so true momentum is building there rather than in Mastodon.
Signal is a foundation but servers are fully US based thus still under US jurisdiction (like the CLOUD Act). Signal is the biggest alternative messenger and even there it is hard to build enough momentum to move entire groupchats from Whatsapp to Signal.

How do you view the situation?

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[–] VisionScout@lemmy.wtf -1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

i dont use any of them. Mastodon is better than bluesky. Signal is state of the art, but its centralized in amazon servers. Since they are centralized, its like having a big target in their backs - all the bad actors will take a shot at it (not mentioning the current US politics and the fact they need donations to keep providing the service).

[–] guest@feddit.org 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Do you have a suggestion for a mastodon server? I was looking for

European server
Not hosted on AWS, GCP, Azure, and no usage of Clourflare or Fastly
Still allows sign-ups
More than 500 users or older than 1 year

And I got hardly any results.

[–] VisionScout@lemmy.wtf 0 points 6 days ago

unfortunately no. Also there's no page that i know of that we can use to search those requirements :-(